REGION: Two San Diego County women look for love on 'The Bachelor'

SAN DIEGO ---- The 14th edition of ABC's "The Bachelor"
premieres Monday, with a Carlsbad woman as one of two San Diego
County residents among the field of 25 bachelorettes trying to win
the heart of commercial airline pilot Jake Pavelka.

Christina, a 25-year-old restaurant manager from San Diego and
Valishia, a 32-year-old homemaker from Carlsbad, will compete for
Pavelka's affection against a member of the NBA's Oklahoma City
Thunder dance team, a corporate flight attendant, a mortgage loan
officer and a captain in the Air National Guard.

ABC did not release the last names of the bachelorettes.

Ten bachelorettes will be eliminated in the premiere, which
includes a blondes versus brunettes touch football game played in
eveningwear and barefoot.

"All 25 women were absolutely amazing, very high caliber from
all walks of life," Pavelka said in a recent conference call with
reporters.

Pavelka said he was looking for someone adventurous,
intelligent, athletic, compassionate and romantic.

The planned eight-episode season, subtitled "On the Wings of
Love," "is very rocky and very dramatic," Pavelka said.

"Some of the things that happened on the show drama-wise floored
me," Pavelka said.

The 31-year-old Pavelka was among the bachelors on last spring's
edition of "The Bachelorette," becoming a fan favorite for his
sincerity, charm, dream of finding true love and hunky good
looks.

Pavelka was eliminated in the sixth of the 10 episodes and
appeared in the seventh episode in an attempt to protect
bachelorette Jillian Harris from men who were not there for the
right reasons.

Harris and her fiance, Ed Swiderski, help Pavelka make his
choice for the first impression rose on the premiere.

Future episodes include Pavelka flying a date to Palm Springs
and a private concert by Chicago; bungee jumping off the Bridge to
Nowhere in the San Gabriel Mountains; trips to Magic Mountain, the
Jon Lovitz Comedy Club, the Castillo di Amorosa in Napa Valley and
San Francisco's Coit Tower.

The finale takes Pavelka and the final three women to St.
Lucia.

None of the 12 previous bachelors has married the woman to whom
he presented the final rose, while entrepreneur Brad Womack
rejected both finalists in the fall 2007 season.